Prioritisation of patients on waiting lists for hip and knee arthroplasties and cataract surgery: Instruments validation

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From recommendation to action: psychosocial factors influencing physician intention to use Health Technology Assessment (HTA) recommendations

BACKGROUND Evaluating the impact of recommendations based upon health technology assessment (HTA) represents a challenge for both HTA agencies and healthcare policy-makers. Using a psychosocial theoretical framework, this study aimed at exploring the factors affecting physician intention to adopt HTA recommendations. The selected recommendations were prioritisation systems for patients on waiti...

Hip and knee arthroplasty waiting list - how accurate and fair?

BACKGROUND Resource-intensive procedures require the use of patient waiting lists in an attempt to increase fairness of access to surgery and improve surgical efficiency. Total hip and knee arthroplasty has waiting lists in excess of years. OBJECTIVES To analyse our tertiary state institution's hip and knee arthroplasty waiting list to assess its accuracy. METHODS At Groote Schuur Hospital,...

Partial 2-Stage Revision in Chronic Hip Arthroplasty Infections: A Review

Background: Periprosthetic hip infections (PHIs) are troublesome complications of hip arthroplasties. The gold standard procedure for treating chronic PHI is a 2-stage approach. Recently, however, more conservative approaches have been developed to spare the osseointegrated components and avoid sequestra, bone loss, devascularization, and difficult reconstructions. The partial ...

Improving the management of waiting lists for elective healthcare services: public perspectives on proposed solutions.

An innovative approach to managing waiting lists and access to elective care, and one that is more fair and consistent with the 'guarantee of access' as stipulated in the Canada Health Act, has been developed by a partnership of medical associations, provincial ministries of health, regional health authorities and research centres. Operating as the Western Canada Waiting List Project, this grou...